redescend

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Verb

redescend (redescends, present participle redescending; past and past participle redescended)

1. (ambitransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent)
   • 1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67,

     To thee sweet Spirit I return

     That love wherwith my heart doth burn,

     And these bless’d notions of my brain

     I now breath up to thee again,

     O let them redescend, and still

     My soul with holy raptures fill.

   • 1786, Monthly Review (London), Volume 75, Appendix, Article 32, p. 544,

     […] these vapours rise […] [and] are expanded in the rarefied air before they redescend in the form of clouds and drizzling rain;

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London: Cassell, Part 3, Chapter 14, pp. 113-114,

     […] the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.

   • 1999, Jeffrey Moore, Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, New York: Putnam, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 40,

     I redescended the stairs, umbrella in hand, and slammed the door for the third time.

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